Ball and bat toy.



No. 7l3,3l6. Patentad Nov. ll, I902.

F. M. LAWRENCE.

BALL AND BAT TOY.

(Application filed July 7, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FELIX M. LAWRENCE, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

BALL AND BAT TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,316, dated November1 1, 1902.

Application filed July 7, 1902. Serial No. 114,595. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, FELIX M. LAWRENCE, of Troy, in the county ofRensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Ball and Bat Toys; and I hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of thisspecification.

This invention is an improved ball and bat toy for children, and itsobject is to provide a bat having two independent but connected andparallel disks or striking-surfaces which will be measurably resilientand resonant and a ball connected to the bat at a point intermediate thedisks, so that the point of suspension from the edge of the disks willbe variable.

The invention consists in the novel construction of the toy, ashereinafter described and claimed and which the accompanying drawingsillustrate.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the bat and ball; Fig. 2, alongitudinal section through the bat. Fig. 3 is a sectional viewthereof, showing another mode of construction of the toy.

In said drawings the bat head or body comprises two parallel adjacentsimilar disks A A, preferably circular in contour and each connectednear one edge to a handle B, which preferably has an enlargedsegmental-shaped head 0 fitting between the disks and to which thelatter are secured. The major portions of the disks, it will beobserved, are unattached, which allows them a degree of elasticity orresiliency which increases the rebound of the ball D, which is connectedto the handle or head 0 at a pointintermediate the disks by means of acord E, which is preferably an elastic cord, and as this cord isunconfined at the edges of the disk it may hang suspended from any pointon the peripheries thereof when the bat is held with the disks in asubstantially horizontal position. The toy toys, the player endeavoringto strike the ball repeatedly with and cause it to return against one orthe other of the disks, and when made of proper material the disks willbe resonant and emit pleasing tones, which are enhanced by thevibrations of the air in the narrow space between the two opposed disks.The disks may be made separately from the handle and attached to thehead thereof, as indicated in Figs. l and 2, or the entire bat may beformed integral, if desired, as indicated in Fig. 3, in each case thecharacteristic feature of opposed adjacent parallel disks connected tothe handle at one edge or point being preserved.

Having thus described myinvention, what I therefore claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent thereon, is-

1. A toy, comprising a handle, a pair of parallel disks connected at oneedge to the end of handle and projecting in the plane of the handle, aball, and a cord connected to the ball at one end and having its otherend secured between the disks so that it can depend at anypoint of theperipheries of disks, substantially as described.

2. The herein-described toy, comprising a handle having a segmentalhead, a pair of similar opposite parallel disks attached to saidhead andprojecting therefrom in the plane of the handle and otherwisedisconnected, a ball, and an elastic cord connected to the ball and tothe head intermediate the disks so that the cord can depend at any pointof the peripheries of the disks, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

FELIX M. LAWRENCE.

In presence of- STEPHEN J. HARRINGTON, DENNIS J. MANEY.

is manipulated like the ordinary bat and ball

